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The race to trillion-dollar AI valuations just got more complicated now that someone's giving away the product for 75% less. Anthropic is targeting a $1.2 trillion valuation by end of 2026, riding an infrastructure boom that's reshaping global capital markets and enterprise spending patterns
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The brokerage that automated retail stock trading just raised a nine-figure round to let AI agents trade everything—and they're building the pipes for a market where your software buys assets while you sleep.
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The company that made digital payments boring just became the most interesting asset in fintech. Stripe and private equity firm Advent International bid over $53 billion to take PayPal private, sending PYPL shares up sharply
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The last time a Wall Street giant put crypto in front of millions of retail clients, it was ETFs that custody your coins for you. This time, you hold the keys.
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The boring brokerage your parents use just made it easier to buy Solana than to buy a municipal bond.
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Institutional money doesn't bet on vibes—Pascal just raised $9M to prove prediction markets can run on rails Wall Street actually trusts.
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The first infrastructure company built for human traders just raised $135 million to serve machines instead. Alpaca, the BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider, closed a $135M round to expand into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services
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While the rest of crypto was nursing losses and watching volumes contract, prediction markets just recorded the biggest quarter in their history.
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Japan just made the strongest institutional bet yet that tokenized stocks will replace brokerage accounts. SBI Group partnered with Ondo Finance to tokenize Japanese equities, with settlement running through SBI's JPYSC yen stablecoin instead of traditional rails
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The headline number looks great until you realize almost none of it moves. The tokenized RWA market hit $60 billion, but 88% of that value is locked in just 62 assets out of more than 7,000 tracked products, most of which remain "concentrated, restricted, or inactive on-chain"
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The gap between institutional capital and DeFi yield just got a Fireblocks-sized bridge. Galaxy launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform giving Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain stablecoin yield strategies
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The real-world asset tokenization debate just got a thesis advisor and a hedge fund manager in a room, and only one of them is leaving with their worldview intact. ARK Invest disputes a16z crypto's claim that traditional finance wants permissioned blockchains, not DeFi rails
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The world's second-largest memory chipmaker just gave American investors a masterclass in why global markets aren't efficient yet. SK Hynix debuted on Nasdaq with a $28 billion ADR listing, giving US investors direct access to the company that supplies HBM memory for most AI accelerators
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The companies building the rails for Web2 just showed up to build the payment layer for Web4. Visa, Stripe, and Google have joined the x402 Foundation, a new open-source standards body designed to let AI agents transact with each other without human intervention
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Export controls designed to kneecap Beijing's AI ambitions just handed Chinese firms their best go-to-market strategy: open models that work everywhere American ones don't.
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The first live test of Aave's modular lending architecture just went cross-chain, and the infrastructure it's built for—tokenized credit markets—is still vaporware. Aave deployed V4 on Avalanche, marking the first time its new Hub and Spoke architecture runs outside Ethereum
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The world's largest stablecoin issuer is buying stakes in banks, not replacing them. Tether invested $20 million in Ualá's $197 million funding round, joining the Argentine neobank's March capital raise
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Someone knew, and they put $300K where their mouth is. Stripe and Advent International jointly bid $53 billion to acquire PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium, but PayPal has been reluctant to engage
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The man who built Coinbase's hottest L2 just admitted he bet the farm on the wrong crops. Base creator Jesse Pollak handed the Base app back to Coinbase and admitted his onchain social strategy—built around Farcaster, Zora, and creator coins—failed to gain traction in Q1 2026
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Japan just placed the largest known order for Nvidia's next-gen AI chips, and it's not for chatbots. Japan is acquiring 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips for a national AI robotics initiative, marking one of the first major deployments of Nvidia's post-Blackwell architecture
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